简介：Themodeloflinearfrequencymodulationcontinuouswave(LFMCW)appliedinunderwaterdetectionandthemethodforthedetectionofechosignalandtheestimationoftargetparameterswerestudied.Byanalyzingtheheterodynesignal,analgorithmwiththestructureofheterodyne-FractionalFourierTransform(FRFT)wasproposed.Toreducethecomputationofsearchingtargetsinatwo-dimensionalFRFTresult.theheterodynesignalwouldbeprocessedbyFRFTataspecificorder,afterRadon-AmbiguityTransform(RAT)wasappliedtoccstimatethesweeprateofthesignal.SimulationsprovedthatthealgorithmcaneliminatethecouplingphenomenonofdistanceandvelocityofLFMCW,andestimatetargets’parametersaccurately.ThelaketrialresultsshowedthattheprocessinggainofLFMCWprocessedbythealgorithminthispaperwas13dBbetterthanthatoftheLFMprocessedbymatchedfilter.TheresearchresultsindicatedthatthealgorithmappliedinLFMCWunderwaterdetectionwasfeasibleandeffective,anditcouldestimatetargets’parametersaccuratelyandobtainagooddetectionperformance.